Example sentences of "the court look [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If there is an important and difficult question of law , however , I do not anticipate that senior judges will either feel ‘ demeaned ’ or take umbrage at the possibility of the courts looking at the question again on fuller argument .
2 If an Act is challenged on the basis that there have been procedural defects during its passage through Parliament , will the courts look behind the formal words of enactment and inquire whether the requirements of the common law have been satisfied ?
3 The courts look at the effect that costs will have on that person 's financial position and decide on the facts whether severe financial hardship will be suffered .
4 This prevents the court looking at the actual circumstances surrounding the breach in question .
5 Furthermore , it might be argued from Case 131/86 United Kingdom v. Council , where the Court looked at the preparatory measures to the legislation in question in order to determine whether it was genuinely intended to be agricultural legislation , that the Court might investigate whether there had been a genuine consideration of the question of subsidiarity .
6 In preferring this wider meaning of the term ‘ accident ’ the court looked to the general purpose of the Act .
7 The Court of Appeal held that the ordinary rules of construction require the court to look at the section 's words and to give them their plain and natural meaning .
8 In determining whether there is a false trade description the court looks at the situation as an ordinary purchaser would .
9 In his judgment , Hoffman J considered that " the court looks at the substance rather than the outward appearance " .
10 The court looks at the whole circumstance of the transaction and considers whether the true nature of the transaction when viewed as a whole is that it is a disguised dividend .
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